 | Sheffield (England) - 1897 - 624 pages
...from Sheffield to Totley, Baslow, &c. [BETTERING SoCIETY.] 1oli. 1 os. subscribed to the Sheffield society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the Poor. [VoLUNTEER DRILL GRoUND.] Trustees agreed to take upon themselves to settle with the Duke of Norfolk... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Social Welfare - 1901 - 1178 pages
...the city of Dublin. Dublin, 12mo. 1801.— 2. Information for cottagers, collected from the reports of the society for bettering the condition, and increasing the comforts of the poor. 12mo. Lond. 1800. — 3. Information for overseers, collected as aforesaid. 12mo. Lond. !"!>!>. —... | |
 | Sophia Elizabeth Higgins - 1903 - 424 pages
...(John), Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, oh. vi. 1 Prefatory Introduction to vol. ii. of The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. The above remarks are contained in a note. double portion. Thus property of every sort was prevented... | |
 | Henry William Massingham - 1903 - 410 pages
...mother of monotonousness and mediocrity. In the first quarter of the last century there existed a " Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor." There was room for its work. Illfed men were incapable of bearing arms, and gentlemen drawn in the... | |
 | 1905 - 858 pages
...period, is embodied in five volumes containing the Reports of an association with a formidable name— "The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor." This Society was founded in 1796 by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Thomas Bernard, assisted by the Bishop of... | |
 | Frank Podmore - 1906 - 420 pages
...clean and well aired, and ten schoolmasters are daily employed in their tuition." Again, the reports of the " Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor " contain an account by Sir Thomas Bernard, given on the authority of Professor Garnett of the Royal... | |
 | Frank Podmore - 1906 - 418 pages
...clean and well aired, and ten schoolmasters are daily employed in their tuition." Again, the reports of the " Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor" contain an account by Sir Thomas Bernard, given on the authority of Professor Garnett of the Royal... | |
 | Wilkins Updike - 1907 - 744 pages
...Hospital and establishing, in 1 796, assisted by the Bishop of Durham, William Wilberforce, and others, The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. It is the five volumes containing the reports of this association which form the basis of the countess's... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1908 - 448 pages
...foundations, Bishop Barrington stood forth as a pioneer of social reforms, and gathered round him in a "Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor" men like Mr Speaker Addington, W. Wilberforce, H. Hoare, Count Rumford, W. Pitt, Paley, H. Thornton,... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1912 - 530 pages
...Society, the, 209 ; Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture, 1 73, 209 ; Smithfleld Club, the, 209 ; Society for bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1796), 408; numerous agricultural societies in the provinces, 209 ; numerous livestock societies of... | |
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The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 5 vols. 
